Anchorage Food Mosaic – The Anchorage Food Mosaic’s mission is to build and celebrate community through cultural foods. AFM believes that just as farms must embrace multi-cropping to be healthy, our community must embrace and nurture the city’s “mosaic” of people if it wants to thrive. The AFM website features different community members through photos and traditional recipes.

Coleen’s Recipes – Coleen is an Alaskan home cook presenting “everyday family recipes, nothing fancy.” She likes to bake and has lots of dessert recipes.

Eating Alaska – Restaurant reviews and home cooking: “Sometimes the eating will be in Anchorage restaurants, sometimes it will involve various misadventures in my home kitchen.” (inactive since 7/2010)

Healthy Alaska – Heidi Snavley lives in Wasilla and originally started her blog to post vegan recipes, but is no longer exclusively a vegan and now shares a broader range of recipes. (inactive since 1/19/2011)

Hey What’s For Dinner Mom? – Laura refuses to microwave, won’t eat food from squeeze pouches, and avoids ‘real flavor added’ products. She lives in Palmer and is on a quest to find good food for kids and adults alike.

It’s Not all Bento – Susan enjoys testing recipes and menu planning, and posts those recipes that work for her family, often focusing on weight watcher friendly foods.

Karen’s Vegan Kitchen – Karen Faivre lives in Anchorage and has been a vegetarian since her early 20s. She became a vegan in 1/2010 and posts recipes that “are so tasty my omnivore friends won’t miss the meat, eggs, and dairy.”

Mrs. Mama Hen – Conni is an army wife to a soldier husband, currently based at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. She’s an organic Christian and homeschooling mom of three. Her blog includes many recipes, most with step-by-step pictorials.

Our Silly Old Lives – AK Mama of 6 lives in the Mat Su Valley and writes about her change to country living, complete with recipes. She now grows a garden, raises chickens and goats, makes her own cheese, and has started canning. She also runs her own business, homeschools her children, and is a devout Orthodox Christian.

Salmon at Seven – Erin Pennings’ Salmon at Seven is the culmination of many hours and months of blogging at EKat’s Kitchen. The original mission of EKat’s Kitchen was to create a log of Erin’s favorite healthy recipes to keep her healthy; and as it – and she – grew, it became a place of community, a place for Erin’s creativity to blossom.

Sandra’s Recipes – Sandra is from Yakutat, Alaska and has lived in Juneau for over 30 years. Her blog is for recipes Sandra has created over the years, as well as some from her husband and friends.

Simply Yum! – Ginny in Anchorage posts recipes, with a focus on healthy foods, that she has tried and enjoyed.

Tart Little Piggy – Madara Hill is “an ex-pat Southerner stuck in Fairbanks” where “it’s very cold and very dark for much of the year.” Madara cooks “to stay sane” and writes life stories, deftly draped around recipes and culinary adventures.

This Tastes Terrible – The name is a family joke; everyone agrees the author’s food is delicious. She is diabetic, and writes about cooking tasty food while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. (inactive since 12/12/2010)

Wild Roots Homestead – In Fairbanks, Alaska, Emily and her husband have a small herd of dairy goats, chickens, and ducks. They are trying to produce as much of their own food as possible on 8 3/4 acres of boreal hillside forest.

Alaska blogs with occasional food-related content or that appear occasionally:

AK Arak Alaska Comfort – Leslie Rae is a lifelong Alaska and mother who writes occasionally about cooking, baking, and gardening with and for her children. (inactive since 12/20/2010)

Alaska Food & Wine: Musings on cuisine, wine, and travel – “information about Alaska cuisine, restaurant reviews, chef news, recipes, and wine tips.” In March 2011, the author started a second blog for her recipes called An Alaskan Cooks: Recipes, cooking, and life in the Last Frontier. (Neither has been updated since mid-2011.)

At Home in Alaska – Alaska Mom posts recipes for cookies, cakes, and desserts of all kinds, interspersed with pictures of Alaska scenery and wildlife.

Camai B&B Happenings – Caroline Valentine runs Camai B&B in Anchorage and posts a few of her breakfast recipes.

Fishes & Dishes – From time to time, the blog for Fishes & Dishes, a cookbook by Kiyo and Tomi Marsh and Laura Cooper, posts Alaska seafood recipes.

Frozen Moments – Barbra Donachy lives in Point Hope, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and is “a photographer, an adventurer, a fisherman, a teacher, a learner, a baker, a sous chef, a hunter, and a writer” among many other things. Her photographs are amazing and her stories of rural life and travels in Alaska ever interesting. She occasionally forays into food writing.

Tundra Gypsy – Mori lives on the Bering Sea coast and tundra in northwest Alaska. She knits, sews, bakes, takes pictures, loves her children, and writes about it all.

Two Short People – Kariane lives in Anchorage and writes about motherhood in Alaska, posting recipes her children enjoy.

Up North, Over Yonder, and Out of My Mind – “The slightly edited ramblings” of Steph from the Mat Su Valley, “a burnt out mom with work-related ADD on cooking, knitting, crafting, and other homey sorts of things” (unless she decides to write about something else).

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